Josh Berman is a cornetist, improviser, composer, and music presenter. An essential contributor to Chicago’s active free jazz and improvised music scene, his work encompasses performing in a variety of highly collaborative formats, while also creating performance opportunities for musicians, having produced hundreds of shows in Chicago over the past 25 years. He has led the acclaimed bands Old Idea, Josh Berman and his Gang, and his own trio. His recordings can be found on Chicago’s legendary Delmark Records and Austin’s Astral Spirits Records.

The current tour celebrates his trio’s brand-new release Everybody Else’s Life, Too (CorbettvsDempsey). Here Berman brings performances that offer a distinctive mix of free jazz, sound, and improvised music. In this grouping, his long-time musical companion Jason Roebke is on double bass, and the master drummer Chris Corsano – who is active in nearly all areas of experimental music – completes Berman’s dynamic trio.

Berman…is kind of a scholar…but not by the letter; he’s an intuitive one, making collages or loose sketches out of history, connecting sounds from different eras and letting them bleed together. - Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

Berman is a bold improviser with clear intention behind every note. - Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times

Berman has long been one of the most thoughtful musicians on Chicago’s diverse jazz and improvised music scene, a player who steadily digests a world of influences to craft something more original with each passing year. He reaches new heights on A Dance and A Hop, a gorgeously conceived trio outing that shows him reveling in sound qua sound as never before. - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

One has to marvel at the sheer amount of melodic invention Berman produces, showing a remarkable capacity for continuously creating lines that twist and turn in unexpected directions. Whether he's articulating mercurial motifs or leaving ample space between softly stated gestures, Berman never lacks for ideas. That his musical vocabulary dances around traditional notions of harmony and tonality only heightens one’s admiration for the creativity of this work. - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune